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Fairpoint Ethernet Mobile Backhaul Business Grows 39%

Friday, January 11th, 2013
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FairPoint Communications says its Ethernet mobile backhaul business in northern New England is expected to increase by more than 39 percent in 2013.

By the end of 2012, less than two years since FairPoint embarked on its fiber-to-the-towers initiative, FairPoint says has increased the number of its mobile carrier contracts to more than 950 mobile connection points on its fiber backhaul network.

FairPoint intends to increase the number of these mobile connection points to more than 1,300 in 2013 based on signed contracts – a better than 39 percent increase. On any particular cell tower, there can be one or more Ethernet virtual connections.

With these signed contracts, FairPoint expects to increase its Ethernet mobile backhaul services to more than 1,000 towers in by year’s end in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.


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U.S. Cable Operator Share of SMB Services Could Double

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
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U.S. cable operators could win as much as 21 percent of the U.S. small and medium business telecom service revenue business over the next five years, up about 100 percent from current levels, .according to Atlantic ACM CEO Dr. Judy Reed Smith.
She estimates that cable operators captured about 10 percent of the $40 billion business telecom opportunity in their respective markets in 2011, up about 24 percent from the year before, Multichannel News reports.
ILECs, CLECs and fiber carriers earned about $33.3 billion in 2011, up two percent from 2010 levels.
U.S. cable operators could win as much as 21 percent of the U.S. small and medium business telecom service revenue business over the next five years, up about 100 percent from current levels, according to Atlantic ACM CEO Dr. Judy Reed Smith.
She estimates that cable operators captured about 10 percent of the $40 billion business telecom opportunity in their respective markets in 2011, up about 24 percent from the year before, Multichannel News reports.
ILECs, CLECs and fiber carriers earned about $33.3 billion in 2011, up two percent from 2010 levels.
Those moves into the business market are parallel to other moves cable operators are making in the enterprise space. Cox Communications considers mobile backhaul, for example, to be one of four key growth opportunities in its business markets segment.

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Wireless Service Providers Boost Ethernet Backhaul Buying

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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It is not news that wireless service providers are upgrading their backhaul connections to support fourth generation networks. As a result, 2011 was the first year that wireless operators bought a higher percentage of wholesale metro connections at speeds above DS-3 (45 Mbps) than below that rate.

At the same time, Ethernet connections grew to represent 29 percent of new backhaul links, up from 16 percent in 2010.

“From 2010 to 2011, wireless buyers’ portion of local transport spending dedicated specifically to Ethernet increased by 13 percent, while for the rest of the industry, Ethernet spending grew five percent,” said company CEO Dr.  Judy Reed Smith.

About 17 percent of executvies surveyed by Atlantic-ACM said they would increase buying of Ethernet private line connections in 2012

About 16 percent of respondents said they would increase buying of switched Ethernet services, while 14 percent said they would buy more Ethernet direct Internet access.


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